This is an analysis of the poem Casualty that begins with:
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He would drink by himself ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedfghghijijadai kbkblalmninifdX dgeXeomomoo X onXnnpkjkoqoq oooooejepr armpfjfiaimaXaX X kffnkeeknnonoqdqdckckckdo XnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,15,11,1,13,10,15,1,25,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111101 110101 01011 100101 110001 100101 110011 1010001 100111 010101 110111 010111 0001001 011110 1010011 110110 110111 0111001 010011 110101 010100 011101 011011 110001 100111 111011 0011001 110100 110111 111101 1101010 1110111 010101 1100111 101000 111001 011101 11101 1100010 100111 10111 0111010 1011011 101111 1011 01110 1 010101 11011 10110 111010 101010 101001 001010 1101110 010100 1000101 10100 110111 110001 111101 111011 110101 110111 111111 0110101 011010 001101 0101001 10001 1111001 111101 101000 100101 011110 011110 100110 0001001 110011 111111 110100 110100 1101011 111111 01100110 1 110100 11010 11110 101001 000100 10001 110101 000100 11010 001010 01101 101111 101001 1101110 1110001 011010 100101 1101001 011101 1001010 100111 111010 1011111 001101 111101 110100 101111 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and, or, whatever are repeated.
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- summary of Casualty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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